Part of Patriot Act ruled unconstitutional ... Apple aims to placate angry iPhone users ... Seattle man arrested for P-to-P ID theft

TOP STORY
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Judge strikes down part of Patriot Act
Judge Victor Marrero, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, ruled Thursday that the Patriot Act provision that allows the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation to obtain ISP and telecom subscribers' billing, calling and Web surfing records without court approval violates the U.S. Constitution.


NEWS UPDATES
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Seattle man arrested for P-to-P ID theft

Google to boost universal search effort

U.S. DOJ questions net neutrality rules

Apple to offer early iPhone buyers $100 store credit

Microsoft readies five September security updates


UNIX TIP
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Looking at soft partitions
By Sandra Henry-Stocker, ITworld.com

Soft partitions provide a way to squeeze more than seven partitions onto a single disk on a Solaris system. First introduced into Solaris as a patch for Solstice DiskSuite on Solaris 8 and then bundled into Solaris 9 as a feature of Solaris Volume Manager, soft partitions provide a way to make more flexible use of the increasingly large disks showing up on Solaris servers. Prior to soft partitions, the maximum of seven partitions often had sysadmins weighing tradeoffs when setting up their systems. Which file systems demand separate slices and which can share disk space without running into problems? With soft partitions, sysadmins can pretty much set up as many partitions on a disk as they care to configure. If you are looking at the soft partitioning on a Solaris server for the first time, you may find the information concerning the configuration of soft partitions a little hard to digest.


OPINION
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Tinfoil hats, or unfortunate reality?
By Dan Blacharski, ITworld.com

Two things are happening that relate to privacy that are cause for concern. First, government intrusion of privacy is at an all-time high (warrantless wire-tapping, etc.), and second, RFID technology is advancing in many ways. There are vocal advocates who proclaim that humans should be "tagged." And according to the Wireless Weblog, there is one company that already requires employees to have microchips implanted in their arms as a condition of employment. Remind me to put that one on my list of places I would never want to work. This is no "feel-good" bill. It's a legitimate bill that should be passed immediately, not just in California but everywhere, because it takes pre-emptive action against the possibility of a grave injustice that could realistically happen.

Apple cuts iPhone price, offers iPod Touch ... HP announces new gaming PCs, iPaqs ... Microsoft releases more Windows Media Extenders

TODAY'S TOP STORY
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Microsoft releases more Windows Media Extenders
Microsoft Corp. is increasing the range of video formats that PCs running its Windows software can pipe to televisions around the home, with support for a new range of Extenders for Windows Media Center devices from hardware manufacturers.


NEWS
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Nokia, Intel beef up new security appliance

Intel gets ready for Penryn, may release Silverthorne early

IBM touts server with embedded virtualization

HP announces new gaming PCs, iPaqs

Wikipedia blocked in China yet again


WINDOWS TIP
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Rebuilding the Outlook search index
By Mitch Tulloch, MTIT Enterprises

If you're using Outlook 2007, and searching for a contact in the Outlook Contacts list, and coming up empty, try rebuilding the index on your machine. It worked for me. Here's how.


CAREER
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Leading Reasons Why CIOs Get Fired
Every CIO should become familiar with the facts about why some contemporaries at other organizations get fired. Sometimes an enterprise simply hires the wrong person. Other times the CIO simply falls down on the job.


TODAY'S POLL
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The first computer I ever owned...

* Ran Windows XP/Vista
* Ran Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000
* Ran Windows 3.x
* Ran DOS
* Ran OS X
* Ran the Classic Mac OS
* Was made by Commodore
* Was made by Atari
* Took up the better part of a room

http://www.itworld.com/itwhirled/#poll

Microsoft ties Windows Live services to Vista ... Apple puts Wi-Fi in iPod Touch ... Google slammed over YouTube deal in Thailand

In this issue:
* Microsoft ties Windows Live services to OS in updates
* Apple puts Wi-Fi in iPod Touch
* Press group slams Google over YouTube deal in Thailand
* Microsoft cuts Zune price as Apple ups ante for iPods
* Broadcom wins latest legal round against Qualcomm
* Debate rages over German government spyware plan
* NetApp hits Sun with patent-infringement lawsuit
* Huge furry creature wields weapon at airport, security uninterested


TOP STORY
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Microsoft ties Windows Live services to OS in updates
Microsoft Corp. is using the same tactic for its online services that made its Internet Explorer browser ubiquitous among Internet users. With new beta technology it's releasing Wednesday, Microsoft is tying its Windows Live services directly to its Windows OS


NEWS UPDATES
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Apple puts Wi-Fi in iPod Touch

Press group slams Google over YouTube deal in Thailand

Microsoft cuts Zune price as Apple ups ante for iPods

Broadcom wins latest legal round against Qualcomm

Debate rages over German government spyware plan

NetApp hits Sun with patent-infringement lawsuit

Motorola's goal: be boring

Cognos buys Applix for $339M ... Yahoo buys ad firm BlueLithium ... Intel releases quad-core Tigerton processor

In this issue:

* Cognos to pay $339 million for Applix
* Yahoo buys ad firm BlueLithium for $300 million
* Intel releases quad-core Tigerton processor
* Star student Cisco set to meet analysts
* Gateway to sell professional unit to MPC
* Serious flaw marks end of life for Bind 8 DNS server
* Dunes unveils SMB-ready virtual appliances
* Cisco brings out fast Wi-Fi 802.11n after all
* Oracle buys Bridgestream for employee role mapping
* A pack of pages
* The Software-as-a-Service Primer
* Huge furry creature wields weapon at airport, security uninterested


TODAY'S TOP STORY
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Cognos to pay $339 million for Applix

Business performance software vendor Cognos Inc. has agreed to buy Applix Inc., a developer of performance analysis software, and plans to integrate the companies' products by early next year.


NEWS
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Yahoo buys ad firm BlueLithium for $300 million

Intel releases quad-core Tigerton processor

Star student Cisco set to meet analysts

Gateway to sell professional unit to MPC

Serious flaw marks end of life for Bind 8 DNS server

Dunes unveils SMB-ready virtual appliances

Cisco brings out fast Wi-Fi 802.11n after all

Oracle buys Bridgestream for employee role mapping


OPINION
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A pack of pages
By James Gaskin, ITworld.com

While talking to some Xerox people about their printers using Solid Ink technology, they kept telling me about PagePack. At first I thought that was a clever marketing term for a ream of paper, but it's really their way to help companies manage and monitor printing costs by charging by the produced page. That's all you pay: a price per page, and for paper, and the price includes all supplies and support. This program applies to only certain copiers and printers, so check the details.

Read the full article here:


FEATURE
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The Software-as-a-Service Primer
Rapid deployment, cost savings, and freeing up IT staff are just a few of the benefits of software as a service (SaaS), yet it is a trend that makes many CIOs nervous. As with Web 2.0 technologies and other Web-based applications, SaaS -- also known as Web-hosted or on-demand software -- takes control out of the IT department and puts it in the hands of an outside vendor.


ITWHIRLED
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Huge furry creature wields weapon at airport, security uninterested

NASA is going to be shooting the original light saber prop from Star Wars into space! All well and good ... but did we really need Chewbacca to hand the thing over to NASA at Oakland Airport? Or a cordon of Stormtroopers to escort it in Houston?

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TODAY'S POLL
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The first computer I ever owned...

* Ran Windows XP/Vista
* Ran Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000
* Ran Windows 3.x
* Ran DOS
* Ran OS X
* Ran the Classic Mac OS
* Was made by Commodore
* Was made by Atari
* Took up the better part of a room

Answer this poll

ISO members reject OOXML format ... Oracle to buy Netsure ... 'Stupid' vulnerabilities found in Oracle 11g

In this issue:

* ISO votes to reject Microsoft's OOXML as standard

* E-mail system attack caused no damage, DOD says

* Oracle to buy network intelligence company Netsure

* DRAM finally finds a home in mobile phones

* HITB: Expert finds 'stupid' vulnerabilities in Oracle 11g

* Free gift offers dupe users into giving personal data

* Second Life gold rush hits a few snags

* Poll: What was the first computer you ever owned?


TODAY'S TOP STORY
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ISO votes to reject Microsoft's OOXML as standard

Microsoft Corp. has failed in its attempt to have its Office Open XML document format fast-tracked straight to the status of an international standard by the International Organization for Standardization.


NEWS
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E-mail system attack caused no damage, DOD says

Oracle to buy network intelligence company Netsure

DRAM finally finds a home in mobile phones

HITB: Expert finds 'stupid' vulnerabilities in Oracle 11g

Free gift offers dupe users into giving personal data


OPINION
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YouTube and advertising: Accepting the inevitable
By Dan Blacharski, ITworld.com

You wanna play, you gotta pay. YouTube has ads on videos now, a common-sense move that long-term is the only way for sites like these to survive. Fortunately for YouTube users, the “pay” end of the deal is that you have to give YouTube advertisers your eyeballs for a few seconds.


UNIX TIP
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Using netgroups to share files
By Sandra Henry-Stocker, ITworld.com

Solaris and other SVR4 versions of Unix provide file sharing through
NFS and the /etc/dfs/dfstab file. The syntax of this particular file
permits you to restrict file system sharing to a limited number of
hosts or to share file systems with no restrictions whatsoever.
Restricting file systems to a select set of hosts is particularly
important if you are permitting the client hosts to access the file
systems read/write and even more important if root on the clients will
have the authority of root on your NFS server.

You can specify the hosts that are permitted to mount file systems by
stringing them together in a colon-separated format with the share
command, such as this command which can be issued on the command line
or included in the dfstab file for a more or less permanent setup:


PODCAST
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ISO members reject OOXML format

More podcasts


ITWHIRLED
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Teen trades hacked iPhone for sports car, more iPhones

Everybody knew that George Hotz, the 17-year-old who managed to unlock an Apple iPhone so it could be used with carriers other than AT&T would do well for himself, but did anyone guess he'd do so well, so quickly? He traded the unlocked iPhone for a $38,000 Nissan 350Z - and, in case he regretted giving up the phone, he got three more of them to boot.

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TODAY'S POLL
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The first computer I ever owned...

* Ran Windows XP/Vista
* Ran Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000
* Ran Windows 3.x
* Ran DOS
* Ran OS X
* Ran the Classic Mac OS
* Was made by Commodore
* Was made by Atari
* Took up the better part of a room

Answer this poll